Orbot for Android v17.9.4 BETA 2 (tor 0.9.4.8)

Orbot 17.9.4 (2.7.0) — Android

This release upgrades the core Tor engine, expands proxy and bridge options, and fixes a few connection bugs.

Updated Tor

• Upgraded to Tor 0.4.9.8, with a refreshed GeoIP database for more accurate country and exit-node selection.

Shadowsocks proxy support

• Added a built-in Shadowsocks (Rust) client, so you can route Tor through a Shadowsocks proxy directly from Orbot.
• Shadowsocks now works alongside the Meek, obfs4, and WebTunnel pluggable transports.
• New "No Proxy" option lets you switch off an outbound proxy without having to clear your saved host or Shadowsocks URL.
• Cleaner proxy setup: the configuration field now expects a Shadowsocks Configuration URL, uses the right keyboard for URLs, and drops redundant entries from the proxy-type
  list.

Bridges & circumvention

• Refreshed the bundled bridge lines.
• Updated IPtProxy to 5.4.2, including a new DNSTT release for better censorship circumvention.
• Reorganized the exit-node and DNSTT-supported country lists so it's clear which regions are available.

Fixes

• Fixed a connection regression when using obfs4 without an outbound proxy.
• Entry Nodes are now ignored when a pluggable transport is active, avoiding an invalid Tor configuration.
• Orbot now reports itself as active only when Tor is actually running.

Translations

• Updated translations for Arabic, Albanian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Greek, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Spanish (incl. Mexico), Tamil, and UK English.

Under the hood

• Disabled Shadowsocks on x86 devices (unsupported) with a more robust build script.
• Bumped hev-socks5-tunnel to 2.15.0.
• Build/toolchain updates: Gradle 9.5.1, Android Gradle Plugin 9.2.1, Kotlin Coroutines 1.11.0, and Fastlane.
• Improved reproducibility of the GeoIP build.